Matthew 15:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

Cross References

Genesis 1:14

And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

Esther 3:3

Then the king's servants who were in the king's house said to Mordecai, Why do you go against the king's order?

Matthew 15:3

And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

Mark 7:2

And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

Mark 7:5

And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

Luke 11:38

And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.

Galatians 1:14

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

Colossians 2:8

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

1 Peter 1:18

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,